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| yantai_scot Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4803 days ago 157 posts - 214 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: German | Message 25 of 43 08 April 2014 at 10:55am | IP Logged | ||
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Week 7/8
w/e 6/4/14 Total time studying (2 weeks) 7 hours 40 Theme of the week(s): One Flew Over the Cookoo's Nest... Work completed Can't even remember... Thoughts Bump in the road. No point dwelling on the past. Focus on present. Goals for next week 5 Assimil lessons to give me leeway should I be too brain dead to manage a full week. Takes me to lesson 36 (first wave) Hugo Week 10- complete it. Anything else is a bonus. Edited by yantai_scot on 08 April 2014 at 10:56am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Gemuse Senior Member Germany Joined 4083 days ago 818 posts - 1189 votes Speaks: English Studies: German | Message 26 of 43 08 April 2014 at 12:05pm | IP Logged | ||
This would be a full week for me. Maybe even more than a full week. That Hugo chapter 10 is a doozy. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| yantai_scot Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4803 days ago 157 posts - 214 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German | Message 27 of 43 05 May 2014 at 9:47pm | IP Logged | ||
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Week 9/10/11/12
w/e 4/05/14 Total time studying: (over 4 weeks) 19 hours 5 minutes Theme of the week(s): Back from the self-study dead! Work completed Hugo Chapter 10. Chapter 11 almost finished but ran out of energy on Sunday night. Assimil to lesson 39 (first wave) completed. Took DW online placement test again today (5/05/14) A2- Your overall result is 80%. EVALUATION: 80% - 100% Excellent! You have not only achieved the CEFR A2 competence level. You are already well on the way to the next level B1. Very pleased. So tried the B1 test again: Your overall result is 56%. EVALUATION: 40% - 59% Thoughts Back on track. Glad to be working away again. Enjoying having random words in German pop into my head at odd times. Makes me feel like the brain is actually processing some of it... Finally getting close to the end of the Hugo book 1. Lordy, it's been tough in the later chapters! Think I'm going to borrow the Assimil approach and work through it again in parallel with the advanced book to really cement the basics. Should be a whole lot easier (and quicker) second time around. The test results suggest I'm roughly around an A2.2 in my reading and listening. Writing and speaking- output basically- need me to get over my shyness and reply to more of those potential pen pals. Need to set myself a target to get this done... Goals for next week Assimil- complete lesson 45 (first wave) Hugo- complete end of chapter 11 and all of 12. Reply to 1 potential pen pal. Finish Tim und Struppi (Der Schwarze Insel) Edited by yantai_scot on 11 May 2014 at 9:47pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| diffuse Newbie United Kingdom Joined 3868 days ago 12 posts - 21 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, German | Message 28 of 43 05 May 2014 at 10:03pm | IP Logged | ||
I have Willkommen & the answers are in the back... ? (Unless you mean to the various in-class partner-type exercises, not just the homework-type stuff. I agree, it's definitely a book aimed at someone taking a class.) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Gemuse Senior Member Germany Joined 4083 days ago 818 posts - 1189 votes Speaks: English Studies: German | Message 29 of 43 06 May 2014 at 3:52am | IP Logged | ||
You have done 5hrs per week, which seems decent to me! Thanks for the hamster hektor. Ich denke, das würde gefällt mir! Who cares if it's a childrens book. I am a fan of Tintin and comics in general, so much so, that I want to improve my german before tackling them, to gain more enjoyment! That Hugo book is a pity in the later chapters. I recently got a B2 coursebook for 13.5 euro used (I got it because it was a good deal, normally 24.5 euros). I was looking at the grammar section, and I think Hugo has everthing. It could have been a great book if it were 800 pages. As written it is so terse! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| yantai_scot Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4803 days ago 157 posts - 214 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German | Message 30 of 43 11 May 2014 at 9:37pm | IP Logged | ||
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I can see now what you mean about the way Hugo is written. Now I don't have my class as
my main focus, I feel like the grammatical points are being thrown at me like snowballs from a class of particularly evil children... It's going in but I'm confused over the whole core sentence, auxiliary sentence thing, where on Earth to place things, let alone all the past tenses that aren't called past tenses! I've gone and borrowed a book on English grammar from the library in order to get things figured out before hitting the advanced book. I've also got my Oxford German Grammar made Easy guide that I'm going to go through for everything that's been covered thus far. What's the B2 coursebook you've bought? I must ask, what are you doing over in Germany? How are you finding it? Are you originally from the USA? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| yantai_scot Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4803 days ago 157 posts - 214 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German | Message 31 of 43 11 May 2014 at 9:54pm | IP Logged | ||
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Week 13
w/e 11/5/14 Total time studying: 12 hours 10 minutes Theme of the week(s):Decent progress Work completed Hugo book 1- chapter 12 of 13 Assimil- lesson 44 (first wave) Thoughts This has been a better week. Despite catching another cold (?!), I've managed to be reasonably consistent. I watched an episode of '3rd Rock from the Sun' in German which I really liked so I'm aiming to watch an episode or two a week, amongst other things. Beano aka Brian pm'd me to tell me about a meet-up in Edinburgh once a month which sounds brilliant. Need to rope in accomplices... Still got my writing and speaking block... Goals for next week Assimil to lesson 50 (first wave) Hugo Week 13- finish book. Watch at least one episode of 'Generation War'. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Gemuse Senior Member Germany Joined 4083 days ago 818 posts - 1189 votes Speaks: English Studies: German | Message 32 of 43 12 May 2014 at 8:16am | IP Logged | ||
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Good job Lorna!
I'm very busy in Germany, I might as well be in another country. My arbeitsplatz is english speaking, and my free time is taken up by German learning in my room, or letting my brain relax by looking at funny stuff on the internet, or feeling guilty that I should be working. The grocery store is nearby and I just walk there. I'm in a bubble. The B2 book I got was: http://www.amazon.de/Erkundungen -Deutsch-als-Fremdsprache-Integriertes/dp/3929526964 Includes the solutions booklet to the exercises in the book. Edited by Gemuse on 12 May 2014 at 8:47am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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